Interesting BN Statistics

This isn't likely the spot that this belongs in, but I'm not really sure where it belongs. There's a really cool site, Alexa.com, that offers some really interesting info about basically every website in existence. Here is some stuff that I found particularly interesting about our very own BN.

1) Basenotes is ranked as the 39,012 most visited website in the world and 18,453 in the US. That's significant in that I was originally looking at the websites of large companies that advertised a lot in the Superbowl to see if they received a large bump in traffic either during or after the Superbowl, and giants such as doritos.com and budlight.com don't even rank in the top 100,000.

2) Believe it or not, F********a, or the site that must not be named, at 25,058, is higher than BN, but at 20,001 in the US, is lower than BN. Don't really know what that says, other than BN clearly has a firmer hold on the US market, maybe because that other place allows reviews in other languages?

3) The highest traffic rank over the last 2 years, appears to have been around June 2009.

4) Here is the list of top searches, on search engines that eventually led people to Basenotes

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What is the site that must not be named? Is it a rival to Basenotes lol?

Anyways... those are great stats you've researched and presented; I'm not surprised though the Doritos and Budlight websites not being hit regulary... why would anyone go on either website, the products are in shops for people to buy and see no-one will be visiting their website unless they're doing promotionals etc...

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Originally Posted by mtgprox05

This isn't likely the spot that this belongs in, but I'm not really sure where it belongs. There's a really cool site, Alexa.com, that offers some really interesting info about basically every website in existence. Here is some stuff that I found particularly interesting about our very own BN.

5) Apparently, compared to the rest of the internet, women are "greatly over-represented" and men are "greatly under-represented"

This was all interesting to read, but item 5) is certainly not correct. If anything, the opposite is true.

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Originally Posted by scentsitivity

This was all interesting to read, but item 5) is certainly not correct. If anything, the opposite is true.

That's why I put it there. The only thing that I can think of to justify it is, that apparently the majority of people that spend lots of time online are men, and thus the high relative concentration of women here, would likely skew those numbers. I'm not quite sure what to make of it, but I thought it was interesting.

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Originally Posted by mtgprox05

That's why I put it there. The only thing that I can think of to justify it is, that apparently the majority of people that spend lots of time online are men, and thus the high relative concentration of women here, would likely skew those numbers. I'm not quite sure what to make of it, but I thought it was interesting.

You're exactly right, and the reason that they call the women's population greatly over-represented, as it's in relation to the average.

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Thanks for posting this mtgprox05. Interesting for sure, although I do not buy into point #5 like Scentsitivity either. I also don't believe that "...the majority of people that spend lots of time online are men..." , but thats just my opinion.

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Thank you, mtgprox !

Am I totally dumb, or why do I not get this paragraph at all: < 5 ) Apparently, compared to the rest of the internet, women are "greatly over-represented" and men are "greatly under-represented" > The other way around it would make sense to me: BN, the fragrance board for men.
I also think this is the most significant difference and makes it attractive for more men to join.

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From memory, it was a search for that very scent that got me here many years ago.

Any idea how a contempories of Basenotes, Perfume of Life and to a lesser extent OsMoz, are faring?

I don't go to Fragrantica all that often, but I particularly like the manufacturer's/marketer's descriptions they have there. They give one an idea of what the intention behind the scent was, and can increase enthusiasm to test and evaluate. And the reviews there, in my opinion, are more the reviews of mainstream users rather than of the reviews here - which are often from the "if it's not niche it's rubbish/ synthetics are awful/it has to be a work of art/ there are no gender differences" points of view, which may limit their usefulness to many.
Renato

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From memory, it was a search for that very scent that got me here many years ago.

Any idea how a contempories of Basenotes, Perfume of Life and to a lesser extent OsMoz, are faring?

I don't go to Fragrantica all that often, but I particularly like the manufacturer's/marketer's descriptions they have there. They give one an idea of what the intention behind the scent was, and can increase enthusiasm to test and evaluate. And the reviews there, in my opinion, are more the reviews of mainstream users rather than of the reviews here - which are often from the "if it's not niche it's rubbish/ synthetics are awful/it has to be a work of art/ there are no gender differences" points of view, which may limit their usefulness to many.
Renato

Ooooff. Renato, truly, my friendship and high regard for you only grows, but I disagree with the import of what you say here.

Chacun a son gout, and two or more groups of people develop differently through natural causes in their conversations in their groups, so it would be natural that places attract different attentions, so you're right, different tastes at different gatherings of folks. However, reviewers here and there express themselves as they wish and with the force that they believe their thoughts/experiences merit, and there is no shame and should be no regret by any any reviewers here. I think no one who's left the results of hitting their keyboard keys to leave something here should second guess themselves and wonder if doing so makes them elitist, a snob, or any other word suggesting such.

The site and forum can handle your opinion in this matter, naturally, and but the import of such a post and what I can only read as a challenge to the utility of reviews here, I sure disagree with you.
--Chris

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Originally Posted by DustB

...The site and forum can handle your opinion in this matter, naturally, and but the import of such a post and what I can only read as a challenge to the utility of reviews here, I sure disagree with you.
--Chris

I didn't read Renato's post the way it is being interpreted here. I also would not be worried for BN on the basis of the figures posted, or their interpretation. 'The Best' and the 'most popular' usually exclude each other.
I know that old habits die hard, but I wonder who you are speaking for when you say "the forum can handle your opinion in this matter", DustB?

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Originally Posted by bluesoul

You're exactly right, and the reason that they call the women's population greatly over-represented, as it's in relation to the average..... Alexa is open to manipulation much like Google or any other search engine is. To think they're exceeding BN in terms of raw volume of hits is doubtful to say the least.

So I wonder if the same set of statistical grouping puts Makeup Alley listed as over-represented by women~

And isn't Google result placement determined by number of hits rather than by negotiation? If so how would it be manipulated other than by massive amounts of forced or contrived hits?

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So I wonder if the same set of statistical grouping puts Makeup Alley listed as over-represented by women~

And isn't Google result placement determined by number of hits rather than by negotiation? If so how would it be manipulated other than by massive amounts of forced or contrived hits?

It's neither, it's a proprietary method that involves incoming links from other websites, frequency of content updates, and other metrics that we're not privy to. There's a cottage industry devoted to it, however, and for the right price you can have a website that's on page one of any search term your heart desires.

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Originally Posted by DustB

Ooooff. Renato, truly, my friendship and high regard for you only grows, but I disagree with the import of what you say here.

Chacun a son gout, and two or more groups of people develop differently through natural causes in their conversations in their groups, so it would be natural that places attract different attentions, so you're right, different tastes at different gatherings of folks. However, reviewers here and there express themselves as they wish and with the force that they believe their thoughts/experiences merit, and there is no shame and should be no regret by any any reviewers here. I think no one who's left the results of hitting their keyboard keys to leave something here should second guess themselves and wonder if doing so makes them elitist, a snob, or any other word suggesting such.

The site and forum can handle your opinion in this matter, naturally, and but the import of such a post and what I can only read as a challenge to the utility of reviews here, I sure disagree with you.
--Chris

Hi Chris,
I pointed out the two major differences I perceive between Basenotes and Fragantica. I recollect citing the one about the manufacturer's blurb being handy when Grant posted a thread relating to Fragrantica. At the time, Fragrantica didn't have many reviews. Since then, the reviews have grown there, and I've posted here my perception of another difference between the two sites.

The reviews there seem to be made by people who in general are more comfortable with the concept of masculine and feminine mainstream designer scents, while over here, reviews are made by some people equally comfortable with the concept, and by people who don't accept the concept, and by people who accept the concept exists but are quite hostile towards anything that comes from it. I think the utility of Fragrantica reviews to the latter will be next to useless, while the utility of the Basenotes reviews to the former will not be as good as it could be for them - because the underlying premise behind each individual review is often not apparent.

Lots of people here hate synthetics, or like to view the wearing of scents as a purely personal experience. So when one of them writes a review blasting a loud synthetic scent, without stating where he or she is coming from, well it just isn't too useful to people who like loud scents with nice sharp synthetic notes.
Renato